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| -rw-r--r-- | base/utils.py | 22 |
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diff --git a/base/utils.py b/base/utils.py index 0154fd6be..7d29eb06e 100644 --- a/base/utils.py +++ b/base/utils.py @@ -1629,6 +1629,28 @@ def su_sudo(): return su_sudo_str +# This function returns the distro name and distro version. +#This is provided to check on Fedora 14 in pkit.py file for Plugin-installation. +def os_release(): + os_name = None; + os_version = None; + if which('lsb_release'): + name = os.popen('lsb_release -i | cut -f 2') + os_name = name.read().strip() + name.close() + version = os.popen('lsb_release -r | cut -f 2') + os_version=version.read().strip() + version.close() + else: + name = os.popen('cat /etc/issue | cut -c 1-7 | head -n 1') + os_name = name.read().strip() + name.close() + version=os.popen('cat /etc/issue | cut -c 16-17 | head -n 1') + os_version=version.read().strip() + version.close() + + return os_name,os_version + # # Removes HTML or XML character references and entities from a text string. |